No, taking antibiotics, having teeth pulled, receiving pain medicines, etc will not change your test results. Your test is negative. There is no reason to repeat your test. Believe the tests.
Take care. EWH
Thanks for the reassurance. To close this out I wanted to let you know that my OraQuick Advance Rapid HIV 1/2 test at 88 days was negative. Although the clinic (in Houston) said I should repeat the test again at 6 months to be absolutely certain!
Whilst I am confident with the 88 day result, I was hoping for the avoidance of doubt you could answer one further question for me. Is there anything that would affect the accuracy of this test? I had my wisdom teeth removed about 3 days before taking this test and was taking a variety of antibiotics, pain meds and using an oral rinse (Peridex) at the time of the test. Although I did not use the rinse the morning of the test. Would any of these 'supress' the HIV antibodies giving a false negative result?
Thanks EWH.
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I glanced at your post on the HIV Prevention Community. There is little chance that you acquired HIV from the risky encounter you describe. A 7.5 week test would detect 99% of HIV infections acquired 7.5 weeks earlier, and if your symptoms at 4 weeks had been due to HIV, your test would have certainly been positive at 7.5 weeks.
As for the white material on your tongue, I would not be at all surprised if this was a Candida infection (thrush). Taking antibiotics tends to kill off the normal bacterial in the mouth (or vaginal for women) thereby greatly increasing the risk of thrush.
As for your specific questions:
1. No. Stopping antibiotics should help. If that does not take care of the problem thrush is easily treated - ask your doctor.
2. No, this would have no effect on your OraQuick result.
3. Very, very low- close to zero.
Hope these comments are helpful. EWH
Sorry Doc. I appear to have had some technical problems posting my question. I guess I exceeded the word limit. Perhaps you can check out my original post in the community foum for the background facts plus the paragraph above on my white tougne issue?
Thanks